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CoVid19 Part XII - 4,604 in ROI (137 deaths) 998 in NI (56 deaths)(04/04) **Read OP**
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More than 4,000 Italian health workers have contracted the virus treating victims in Italy and 66 doctors have died.
Worldwide, as millions of people stay at home to minimise transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, health-care workers prepare to do the exact opposite.
They will go to clinics and hospitals, putting themselves at high risk from COVID-2019. Figures from China's National Health Commission show that more than 3300 health-care workers have been infected as of early March and, according to local media, by the end of February at least 22 had died. In Italy, 20% of responding health-care workers were infected, and some have died. Reports from medical staff describe physical and mental exhaustion, the torment of difficult triage decisions, and the pain of losing patients and colleagues, all in addition to the infection risk.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30644-9/fulltext
And we were thinking of sending student nurses into danger without pay...
Anyone know how much they are being paid now ?0 -
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There are ethical questions around that.humberklog wrote: »I was listening to one scientist (can't recall who or even the show/pod) in the field talking about the different tactics used by different countries. It was at the time GB appeared to be changing tack from herd to their present position. Was that a week ago? A year ago? He reasoned that while some methods appeared riskier than others and he understood the "lowering the curve" for health care management he said that countries should stick to the path they've taken.
His hypothesis was that there was little to be gained by changing tack during a process as the genie would be out of the bottle either way. However by sticking with the initial plan there would be data gained from differing approaches. While I don't mean to throw out a "but a random scientist said..." but this did strike me as sensible.
We kinda need different approaches in western democracies for future best practice.
You cant run country-sized non-consenting experiments on people. You'd be telling some countries to not follow the currently Best-In-Class approach for the sake of science. Can you imagine if we were told to go for Herd Immunity while the UK was told to go for cocooning? There'd be riots.
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There are ethical questions around that.
You cant run country-sized non-consenting experiments on people. You'd be telling some countries to not follow the currently Best-In-Class approach for the sake of science. Can you imagine if we were told to go for Herd Immunity while the UK was told to go for cocooning? There'd be riots.
I'd stay at home on riot day0 -
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Rob A. Bank wrote: »More than 4,000 Italian health workers have contracted the virus treating victims in Italy and 66 doctors have died.
And we were thinking of sending student nurses into danger without pay...
Anyone know how much they are being paid now ?
Think it’s a hca contract so 28k annum0 -
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